Highest Rated Silks

Simon Bird KC, Michael Humphries KC, Morag Ellis KC, Douglas Edwards KC, Gregory Jones KC, James Pereira KC, Hereward Phillpot KC, Alexander Booth KC, Richard Honey KC, Mark Westmoreland Smith KC, Isabella Tafur KC.

Highest Rated Juniors

Hugh Flanagan, Rebecca Clutten, Caroline Daly, Daisy Noble, Jonathan Welch and Mark O’Brien O’Reilly

Juniors Under 35

Daisy Noble, Mark O’Brien O’Reilly, Armin Solimani

Highest Rated for Infrastructure

Michael Humphries KC, Hereward Phillpot KC, Isabella Tafur KC, James Pereira KC, Mark Westmoreland Smith KC, Rebecca Clutten

Notes from Planning Magazine

The annual Planning Law Survey provides a detailed picture of the most highly rated planning barristers, solicitors, law firms and legal departments working in England today.

The survey, which was first published in 1998, invites solicitors, consultants, developers and local authorities to nominate barristers who, in their view, exemplify best practice. Solicitors and law firms are voted for by consultants, developers and local authorities.

A total of 253 respondents gave their nominations this year. Only those working in roles that could involve them in commissioning or instructing a barrister or solicitor, and who received an invitation from Planning, were eligible to vote.

The invitation list was compiled to ensure that rankings were not skewed by disproportionately high levels of responses from single organisations, and the results weighted to ensure that neither public nor private sector voters were disproportionately represented.

For almost three decades, our annual Planning Law Survey has been charting the most highly rated planning barristers working in England. Now in its 29th year, the survey identifies the outstanding silks and juniors rising through the ranks.

Our rankings are based on nominations from solicitors, consultants, developers, local authority legal teams and other client groups, who are invited to identify the barristers they consider to exemplify best practice.